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Spring boots
March 22, 2008
Keeping warm on a snowy spring day, hanging out in the fireplace lounge at Bates College new dining commons. Waiting for Daddy to join us so we can go for supper. This photo just makes me want to say "dum, de-dum, de-dum"
Yarn
January 18, 2008
I'd like to become proficient at crochet and eventually knitting so I can justify buying beautiful yarns. I'm like a kid in a candy shop when I'm around farm grown and homespun wools. After seeing the mounds of wool at the farm in December I needed to come up with ...
Why I love Maine, reason number 36:
January 7, 2008
The term "off the grid" comes up fairly often in conversations & media (at the least with the people I know). And when you bring it up people know you aren't talking about drawing your line off the graph paper. If you know what I mean. I have fantasies of ...
on our the street
January 2, 2008
Our neighbor, who I've never met till 15 minutes ago, just finished snow blowing the end of our driveway. We've shoveled a couple times during today's storm but the city plowed our driveway shut so to speak. So our neighbor is out at 10pm snow blowing his way down the ...
Fall Leaves at Bates
October 31, 2007
I got a phone call this morning from my husband on his way to work. He had spotted the leaf blowers on campus. The kids and I had been waiting for this official report for the last couple days. Every year around this time the college blows all the leaves ...
In need of a meal
October 4, 2007
Last night the kids and I ate at a local church that hosts a free community supper each Wednesday night. I've seen the sign advertising the supper week after week as I drive by doing my errands. The opportunity to take part finally presented itself yesterday. I was a little ...
